Reddit Announced today that users can now search for comments within a post on desktop, iOS, and Android. With this latest update, you no longer have to press “Cmd-F” or “Ctrl-F” on a post page, as you can now browse comment threads without having to expand them. The feature lets you quickly find the information you’re looking for in a specific post, the company says.
Last year, Reddit launched the ability to search for comments across the platform with the addition of a “comments” tab in the search bar, but you still couldn’t search for comments within a post. Based on user feedback, Reddit is now rolling out this new change.
Reddit says that it has made several improvements to its search feature in recent months. In October, the company introduced text-within-images search, meaning users got the ability to search for their favorite memes that have text.
Additionally, Reddit says that its subreddit search algorithm has been improved to show more relevant subreddits for most searches. The platform has also made improvements to autocomplete to make it easier to search for communities without having to type the exact name in the correct order to find relevant results. The company has also made it easy to navigate through video search results. Now when you tap on a video search result, you can swipe up and down to go between the video results on iOS and Android.
Today’s announcement comes as Reddit recently released a new “community mute” feature to give users more control over what they do and don’t want to see on the platform. You can use the new feature to mute an entire community, after which posts from that specific community will be removed from your notifications, feed feed, and popular feed.
